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Events from the year 1932 in art.

Events

  • April 6–19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is tried and convicted in Berlin for selling forged paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh and sentenced to 19 months in prison.{{cite book|author=Sepp Schüller|title=Forgers, Dealers, Experts: Strange Chapters in the History of Art|publisher=Putnam|year=1960|page=76}}
  • June 16 – Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibition opens at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris, displaying 225 paintings.{{cite book|authorlink=Michael C. FitzGerald|last=FitzGerald|first=Michael C.|title=The Making of Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art|year=1995}}
  • June 25 – An article in The Saturday Evening Post (US) claims that the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was partly masterminded by a forger named Yves Chaudron.{{cite news|first=Karl|last=Decker|work=The Saturday Evening Post|title=Why and How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen|date=1932-06-25}}
  • August 2 – The Saint Petersburg Union of Artists is established (as the "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists").
  • October – Courtauld Institute of Art opens in London.
  • October–November – Exhibition Carvings by Barbara Hepworth, Paintings by Ben Nicholson at the Arthur Tooth & Sons gallery in London.{{cite book|first=Caroline|last=Maclean|title=Circles and Squares|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-1-4088-8969-5}}
  • November 15 – First exhibition of Group f/64 photographers opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
  • November 30 – Exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America 1750–1900 opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.{{cite book|authorlink=Holger Cahill|first=Holger|last=Cahill|title=American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America 1750–1900|location=New York|publisher=MoMA|year=1932}}
  • Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.
  • The Wedgwood pottery firm in England first commissions designs from Keith Murray.
  • First Abstraction-Création Cahier, Abstraction-création: Art non-figuratif, is produced.
  • Sale of the late 12th century Japanese emakimono Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the United States causes the Japanese government to impose restrictions on sale of significant artistic works from the country.{{cite book|first1=Jirō|last1=Umezu|title=粉和寺緣起絵 吉備大臣入唐絵|trans-title=Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki|volume=6|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten|series=Shinshū Nihon emakimono zenshū|year=1977}}

Works

=Graphic art=

{{See also|Category:1932 paintings}}

=Photographs=

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson – Derrière la gare de Saint-Lazare
  • Charles Clyde Ebbets – Lunch atop a Skyscraper{{Cite magazine |last=Gambino |first=Megan |date=September 19, 2012 |title=Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-photograph-the-story-behind-the-famous-shot-43931148/ |magazine=Smithsonian |issn=0037-7333 |ref={{sfnRef|Smithsonian|2012}} |access-date=May 6, 2022}}
  • John Heartfield – photomontages
  • [http://www.johnheartfield.com/HTML/john_heartfield_montageAdolphSuperman94.html Adolf, the Superman]
  • The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace

=Sculptures=

{{See also|Category:1932 sculptures}}

Awards

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References

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Category:Years of the 20th century in art

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